@book{2015:edinger:political_,
title = {Political Careers in Europe},
year = {2015},
note = {European integration not only has changed the career opportunities for
politicians, it has also expanded them. This volume is dedicated to
the study of political career patterns. It focusses on parliamentary
careers in select European countries, but the U.S. is also included as
a long-standing system with multi-level politics. The contributions
represent a systematic investigation into levelhopping practices in
Europe. While discussing the logic of moves across political levels,
special attention is given to the impact of institutional reforms. The
results indicate that the traditional model of career mobility, with
the national level as the apex of a career, is still of importance in
most countries ­ however, a clear trend towards multi-directional
political careers is found.About Editors:Dr. Michael Edinger is Senior
Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Jena,
Germany. Dr. Stefan Jahr is Senior Information Analyst at the
University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Like most of the authors the
editors have been involved in a pan-European research project on
parliamentary elites.},
edition = {1},
publisher = {Nomos},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Studien zum Parlamentarismus},
volume = {5},
editor = {Edinger, Michael and Jahr, Stefan}
}